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Ellen Stevens earned her Bachelor of Science degree in
Health Science at the State University of New York at Brockport and her Master
of Business Administration degree at the Simon School of Business at the
University of Rochester after spending time as a small business owner and
commercial insurance underwriter.After
earning her MBA with concentrations in Finance and Economics, she worked as a
Financial Analyst for a Fortune 50 company in Atlanta, Ga., immersing herself
in the investment, cash management, risk management, and
acquisition/divestiture activities of a large corporation.

As sometimes happens, the direction of her career changed
when the demands of family became more pressing. In search of the flexibility
that a corporate career did not allow at that time, she left corporate life to
teach college economics and operate a small business.

Ms. Stevens currently owns and operates The Beanery Coffee Roasters, a regional coffee
roasting operation, and teaches the face-to-face and online Survey of Economics
courses, focusing on applications to real world markets, particularly the world
coffee market.She is active in the
Specialty Coffee Association of America, having hosted several regional coffee
events and educating the community about coffee roasting, cupping, and
growing.Her current interest is writing
case studies about the coffee business for use in the economics classroom, and
writing for coffee trade publications.